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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

Bloggers have an advantage that static and retail websites don’t. Penguin, announced in April 2012, decreased search visibility of websites that participated in black-hat SEO, keyword stuffing, cloaking, link schemes , duplicate content, and other activities that violated Google Webmaster Guidelines. The answer is, a lot.

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Particularly when your site(s) (as mine do) clearly state(s) you do not accept press-release-style emails or requests for sponsored articles it seems perfectly legitimate to respond with something snarky or harsh to people who do not even take the time to read your policies in advance.

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How to Get a Footer Link from SoundCloud.com (And Why I’m Continuing with “Dark SEO”)

Viper Chill

Well, as my recent blog posts have shown, I don’t follow the Google guidelines like I used to. If you don’t read the rest of this very long post then let me summarise it as this: Google is failing to enforce their guidelines on a huge scale, especially when it comes to big brands. They knew what they were doing.

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 64 Comments Dragos Roua says: October 26, 2009 at 11:27 am Yeap,I couldn’t agree more on step 7. In the spirit of this article, I submit the following creative guidelines that have helped my clients generate superior content and work a little less. It’s time to cloudjack, baby ! So THANK YOU!,

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 75 Comments Casual says: April 26, 2010 at 11:25 am Great post, as usual. as a guideline, take a look at which infographics have been successfully promoted on digg: [link] feel free to reach out anytime. I want to thank them all again for taking part and I hope you all learned something from the post.